Blair Salmon
Strategic Principal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Salmon is a Strategic Principal with 12+ years leading large-scale cloud and infrastructure transformations, currently shaping Liatrio’s strategic direction after directing BHP’s $110M+ migration portfolio. He has a strong track record of turning struggling programs into flagship initiatives—most notably driving Origin Energy from 4% to 90% cloud-hosted and migrating 450+ applications for BHP while meeting strict divestment deadlines. Blair routinely bridges technical and executive stakeholders to secure buy-in, establish governance, and appoint high-performing teams across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. His background spans consulting, program delivery, and vendor engagement across major Australian enterprises including Medibank, Australia Post, RMIT, and EnergyAustralia. Certified in both Azure and AWS, he combines pragmatic risk and financial control with a knack for prioritised, multi-phased roadmaps that accelerate business value. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic strategist who navigates complex organizational dynamics to make cloud futures tangible.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Business Studies Information Technology, Bachelor Business Studies Information Technology at Massey University
English, French
Github Skills (63)
web-proxy10
typescript10
fiddler10
proxy-server10
forward-proxy9
typescript-definitions9
proxy9
dts9
single-sign-on8
http-proxy8
golang8
reverse-proxy8
lists7
access-control7
ssh6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bsycorp/log-forwarder
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
A simple log forwarder for systemd, docker and kubernetes logs
Contributions:31 commits, 10 PRs, 29 pushes in 3 years 7 months
simple-logseccompfluentddockerlogging
bls/ztracer
May 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:57 commits in 1 month
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